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<div class="SSN_title">"CHARGE IT TO ME"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. The story of Onesimus. He was one of the many slaves in the Roman empire. He evidently stole some money from his master Philemon and fled Asia for Rome. Through circumstances that we do not know he ended up in prison with Paul. Paul no doubt shared the gospel with him and he accepted Jesus Christ. He became as a servant to Paul who was still in bonds. Paul after a time discovered that he was a runaway slave, and when Onesimus told Paul who his master was, Paul said, "I know Philemon, I led him to Christ." Paul desired to keep Onesimus with him there in Rome, but would not do it without the consent of Philemon. The runaway slave when caught was punished severely often put to death, so Paul is sending Onesimus back to his master with a letter of intercession for the man who Paul had come to love. He is pleading for mercy and grace from Philemon to his runaway slave.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. IN THE INTERCESSION OF PAUL FOR ONESIMUS WE SEE MANY PARALLELS WITH THE INTERCESSION OF JESUS CHRIST FOR US.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In verse 10 Paul beseeches Philemon for Onesimus, who Paul calls his son, that he begot in the faith.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Paul was willing to acknowledge him as a son, to identify with him in a close relationship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I think of how Jesus was willing to identify with us, though He was God, He became man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He became what we are, in order to make us what He is.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "God made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God through Him."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. He said to His disciples, I no longer call you servants, but I call you friends.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In times past he was unprofitable to you. (This is perhaps a play on words for Onesimus in Greek means profitable.)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He had rebelled against his master.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He had stolen money and fled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I think of how our lives were once so unprofitable to God when we were living in rebellion against Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. We partook of the goodness of God without ever giving a word of thanks or appreciation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. The very purpose of your existence is to bring God pleasure. Some have never brought God one moment of pleasure, it never comes into their minds. They live only for their own pleasure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Paul asks Philemon to receive him as he would receive Paul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Don't look upon him any longer as a slave, but as a brother in Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Receive him even as you would receive me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I think of that great verse in Ephesians that declares that we are accepted in the beloved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. As I am in Christ Jesus, God accepts me as His own son.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I have no right for God to accept me, justice would demand that God reject me. Yet we are accepted in the Beloved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. "If he has wronged you or owes you anything, put it to my account."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Charge it to me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Paul is willing to bear the debt that Onesimus owed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This is exactly what Jesus has done for us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He took upon Himself our debt of sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',53,4);">ISA 53:4</a> Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',53,5);">ISA 53:5</a> But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',53,6);">ISA 53:6</a> All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He paid a debt He did not owe, I owed a debt I could not pay,</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. To you who have been born again through Jesus Christ, He has become our mediator, our advocate interceding for us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Jo',2,1);">1JO 2:1</a> My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Ti',2,5);">1TI 2:5</a> For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,34);">ROM 8:34</a> Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Hbr',7,25);">HEB 7:25</a> Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. When I sin, and the righteousness of God demands my punishment, Jesus says to the Father, "Charge that to Me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Satan is there making all kinds of accusations against me, in the scriptures he is called the accuser of the brethren.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. We are told that he accuses us both day and night before the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. He might be considered the prosecuting attorney, bringing against me all kinds of charges and accusations.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. But Jesus stands before the Father for me and says, "Just charge it to My account." and the Father declares, "Justified."</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,31);">ROM 8:31</a> What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,32);">ROM 8:32</a> He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,33);">ROM 8:33</a> Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,34);">ROM 8:34</a> Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Note,</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God is for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God is for you so much that He delivered His Son up for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God is not finding fault with you, He has justified you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Jesus is not condemning you, He is interceding for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,35);">ROM 8:35</a> Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,36);">ROM 8:36</a> As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,37);">ROM 8:37</a> Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,38);">ROM 8:38</a> For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,39);">ROM 8:39</a> Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. Note:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. No negative circumstances of life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. No powers that exist now or in the future.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I am not just a conqueror, but more than a conqueror through Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. PAUL'S RATIONAL, "PERHAPS HE DEPARTED FROM YOU FOR A SEASON THAT YOU MIGHT RECEIVE HIM AS AN ETERNAL BROTHER."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God's purposes are sometimes worked out in our lives through adverse circumstances.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We are told that all things are working together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. At the time of adversity we often cannot see the good that God is working out through our circumstances.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Sometimes it is years later before we can see the good purposes of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. One of the many advantages of growing old is that you can see life with a much clearer vision, for hindsight is better than foresight.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Things that I thought were a bane, I can now see that God intended them as a blessing. I think of how I was pleading with God to remove those things, that God had placed there for my good.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. When Philemon discovered that his slave Onesimus had stolen money and had run away, he no doubt was angered as he thought about his loss.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Paul is suggesting that perhaps the temporary loss was intended to produce an eternal gain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. We see our child go away from God and we greave and mourn, yet God's hand is on them because of our prayers, and how do we know that the trouble that they are in is a part of God's plan to work His eternal purposes in their lives.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When St. Augustine was a boy growing up in Alexandria Egypt, he got into bad company and was a real concern to his godly mother who prayed earnestly for her son. One day he announced to his mother his desire to go to Rome. She pled with him not to go. She began to pray desperately, God keep Augustine from Rome. Don't let him go. When one day he waved good bye to her, and said, I will write you from Rome, she was devastated and thought that God had failed her. One day she received a letter from her son in Rome which told her of his meeting some men in Rome who really challenged him to surrender his life completely to serving Jesus Christ, which he had decided to do.</div>
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